Proofread (Complete) Segment

An proofread segment has had its translation read by a proofreader and any errors have been marked or corrected.

Who can and how to proofread?

Managers and translators with proofreading rights can proofread a segment by ticking the segment’s checkbox located at the top right corner of a segment. Proofread segments appear with a green indicator.

How to unproofread?

Managers and translators with proofreading rights can unproofread a segment by un-ticking the segment checkbox. Editing and changing the translation of a proofread segment also marks the segment as unproofread.

How to proofread?

Untranslated Segment

An untranslated segment is a segment that has not been translated nor proofread yet. An untranslated segment can be proofread in which case its status is proofread. This is useful when a segment must be intentionally be left blank for instance. Untranslated segments appear with a red, dotted indicator.

How to translate a segment?

Managers and translators can translate a segment by clicking on the translation area.

Managers and translators can then type their translation in the translation area and click on the green Save button to save the translation.

How to remove this “to verify” status?

Obsolete Segment

An obsolete segment is a segment that is no longer in use in your project. Instead of deleting this segment and its translations, we put it in a temporary category, “obsolete”, so that you can recover it and its translations. Obsolete segments are hidden to translators.

Why are my segments marked as obsoleted?

Segments don’t become obsolete by themselves. When someone uploads a new version of your file in which a segment was removed it will then be removed from WebTranslateIt as well. We call that obsoleting a segment. For more information and concrete examples check our documentation on obsoleting segments.

How can I un-obsolete a segment?

You can mark a segment as active by uploading a version of your file that contains that segment, or by marking the obsolete segment as active.

Plural Segments

A plural segment is a segment which often includes a countable variable placeholder (a number for which the value can vary programmatically). Nouns are inflected by this grammatical number and generally have different forms for singular and plural. In English for instance we decline the word dog in 1 dog and 2 dogs.

You can help yourself with the helpers indicated by the translation interface to translate these segments.

Important You may have more or less plural forms in your target language than in your master language. Plurals are different in many languages. For more information read the section about plural segments in the FAQ and in the documentation.

AutoSave

AutoSave is a feature that you can activate and deactivate in the toolbar. When turned on saving translations on the translation interface happens automatically without clicking on the “Save” button, which is not present.